Oh My Gosh......

The negativity and critical nature is astounding. Just got off the phone with soon to be ex NPDh. So he's telling me how his day is going.. like we don't already know its terrible. Anyway-he starts telling me this story about how he had to load this truck, and it wasn't the right kind of truck and he couldn't use the forklift and his boss is an idiot.. blah blah blah. and it started to sound really familiar..I know I had already heard this story 2-3 weeks ago, but he's telling it like it happened today. (which I guess it could have happened then and today, but seriously the story was almost verbatim). So he says "when I got done I was sweating like I worked out at the gym". He says this in a tone that implies it was a terrible thing and that he was frustrated at having to work up a sweat and everyone is idiots. Now this is coming from a man who LOVES to sweat. Thinks it burnes 1000 calories to wear a heavy sweatshirt and sweatpants to the gym in the middle of FL summer. And he's a workout nut. So I said to him..."well look on the brightside, consider it your workout. You didn't get a chance to work out yesterday, and you are going to miss your workout today because you are going to your mom's after work.. so the silver lining is that you still got to workout". Well don't you know that pissed him off. Then he says to me "you know you're all quick to find the silver lining in everything except me". uhm... what? seriously.. so my postive attitude is now something for him to use/treat as a negative. Oh my gosh. I didn't even take the bait. I just laughed and said, "huh, interesting that you see it like that. I was simply looking at the brightside of your day. But you should see it however you want to" (me: upbeat and happy) (him: snide and snarky) "well enjoy running your errands for your great job. goodbye" Me: "okay, by". I swear he wanted to start and argument. He's been trying to start one for days. I think he's really starting to get frustrated because I'm not letting him get to me or bait me. I just keep being upbeat and happy... because I know my apartment will be ready in May! It just astounds me how much they ENJOY being miserable. I think he has used it his whole life in an attempt to get sympathy.